he joined back in 1975 and has worked throughout the arab world in his career serving in pakistan, tunisia, saudi arabia, oman and israel. a hash tag that translates to al-qaeda's reward was used to spread the word about this bounty on twitter. that's according to the middle east media research institute who is tracking several terrorist twitter accounts and notes the terrorists are now using more social networks like twitter and facebook because there are other forums on-line are being shut dallas down. it's said this threat is being taken very seriously, but that spokesman would not comment about whether or not security around the ambassador has been stepped up since the state department became aware of this bounty. there is another offer tied to this one for $23,000. that will go to anyone who kills an american soldier in yemen. next friday marks the four-month anniversary of the deadly raid on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, that killed another u.s. ambassador, chris stevens and three other americans. back to you in new york. >> steve: thank you very much for that report from dc